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THE ROMANTIC AGE (1760-1837)

The period between 1760 and 1837 saw significant political, social, and economic changes in Britain. Key legislative acts included the Factory Act, which aimed to improve conditions for child workers, and the Slavery Abolition Act, which granted freedom to slaves across the British Empire.

THE ROMANTIC AGE (1760-1837)

THE ROMANTIC AGE (1760-1837)

WILLIAM IV

1830-1837
1834 THE AMENDEMENT OF THE POOR LAW

not obligation to offer financial help to poor

workhouse

1833

THE FACTORY ACT

for children working in the factories

more rights

THE SLAVERY ABOLITION ACT

freedom to all slaves in the British Empire

1832 THE REFORM ACT

vote for all male members of middle-class

GEORGE IV

1820-1830
1829 THE CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION

Catholics and Dissenter can access to public offices

a patron of art and architecture

Royal Pavillon

British Museum Library

GEORGE III

1760-1820
1819 THE PETERLOO MASSACRE

at St Peter's Fiields in Manchester

for the suspention of Habeas Corpus

1815 THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO

THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA

THE OLD ORDER IN EUROPE

1812 NAPOLEONIC WARS

15 years

FRENCH INVASION OF PRUSSIA

NAPOLEON'S DECLINE

1805 THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
1804 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE=EMPEROR OF FRANCE
1793 WAR BETWEEN BRITAIN AND FRANCE

PRIME MINISTER WILLIAM PITT

anti-Revolutionary Coalition

Prussia

Austria

1789 BRITAIN AND FRENCH REVOLUTION

by philosophers (Voltaire, Rousseau)

new values

liberty

fraternity

equality

1783 TREATY OF VERSAILLES

BRITAIN ACCEPTS THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1776 THE AMERICAN DEMONSTRATION OF INDIPENDENCE

4 JULY

1775 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
1773 THE BOSTON TEA PARTY

PROTEST BY DEMONSTRATORS

for taxation

1770 THE BOSTON MASSACRE

BRITAIN VS COLONISTS